Luther

Here shall a Christian learn how to grasp and use the Gospel message, when the time of battle is come and the Law attacks and accuses him, and his own conscience tells him: this wrong you have done, and you are a sinner, and what you deserve is death, and so on, that, at such a time he may with true confidence reply: Alas, I am a sinner and have well deserved death. You are right, but condemn and kill me on that account you shall not. There is One who will hinder you, and who is called my Lord Christ, whom you have accused and murdered, though He was innocent. But do you not know how you were burnt and bruised by Him, thus losing all your rights over me and all other Christians? For He bore sin and death, not for His own sake, but for me.—Sermons, 1532